Google Inc.

Matic Robots, Inc.

Matician, Inc.

Seungho Yang

James Edward Stewart

Christopher Charles Burns

Joe Delone Venters

Carsten Hinz

George Alban Heitz

Cameron Hill

Gregory Rourk Nelson

Lawrence W Neal

Martin Davidsson

Sahana Mysore

Nathan Scott Klee

Timothy Samuel Psiaki

Sayed Yusef Shafi

Kevin James Avery

William Alex Finlayson

Jason Evans Goulden

Michael D Dixon

Jeffrey Alan Boyd

Rajeev Conrad Nongpiur

Yu-An Lien

Rengarajan Aravamudhan

Hae Rim Jeong

Mehul Nariyawala

Navneet Dalal

Anshuman Kumar

Vishal Jain

Gavin Li

Alexis De Stasio

Yohannes Kifle

Haerim Jeong

Kyle Dhindsa

Nathan Elio Madonia

William George Plummer

Tristan Pierre Gervais

Vivek Kumar Bagaria

Clayton Haight

Karthik Chandrashekaraiah

Kendison Givens Ma

Prabhakar Manoj Naik

George Alban Iii Heitz

Systems and methods for navigating an autonomous vacuum are disclosed. According to one method, the autonomous vacuum traverses a cleaning environment having a plurality of surfaces. As the autonomous vacuum is traversing the cleaning environment, sensors on the autonomous vacuum capture sensor data describing a first section of a surface on which the autonomous vacuum is currently traversing. Based on the received sensor data, the autonomous vacuum can determine that the first section is of a first surface type of a plurality of surface types. The autonomous vacuum can generate a user interface with a background displaying the determined first surface type to notify the user of where the autonomous vacuum is cleaning.

Detection and presentation of various surface types by an autonomous vacuum

An autonomous cleaning robot (e.g., an autonomous vacuum) may use a sensor system to map an environment that may be used to determine where to clean. The autonomous vacuum receives visual data about the environment and determines a ground plane of the environment based on the visual data. The autonomous vacuum detects objects within the environment based on the ground plane. For each object, the autonomous vacuum segments a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the object out of the visual data and determines whether the object is static or dynamic. The autonomous vacuum adds static objects to a long-term level of a map of the environment and dynamic objects to an intermediate level of the map. The autonomous vacuum may further add virtual borders, flags, walls, and messes to the map.

Mapping an environment around an autonomous vacuum

A method at an electronic device with a display includes: displaying a user interface having a first region and a second region; receiving, and displaying in the first region of the user interface, a live video stream of a physical environment captured by a remote video camera; displaying, in the second region, a timeline corresponding to a timespan for a first portion of a duration during which the live video stream may have been recorded; in response to receiving a user interaction to move the timespan to a second portion of the duration, transitioning the displayed timeline to a new timeline that corresponds to the timespan for the second portion, and while transitioning, displaying, in the first region, a subset of video frames representing the first and/or second portion of the duration.

Timeline-video relationship presentation for alert events

An autonomous cleaning robot (e.g., an autonomous vacuum) may clean an environment using a cleaning head that is self-actuated. The cleaning head includes an actuator assembly comprising an actuator configured to control rotation and vertical movement of a cleaning roller, a controller, and a cleaning roller having an elongated cylindrical length connected to the actuator assembly. The cleaning head also includes a computer processor connected to the actuator assembly and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that causes the computer processor to map the environment based on sensor data captured by the autonomous vacuum. The computer processor may determine an optimal height for the cleaning head based on the map and instruct the actuator assembly to adjust the height of the cleaning head.

Self-actuated cleaning head for an autonomous vacuum

A method of detecting and responding to a visitor to a smart home environment via an electronic greeting system of the smart home environment, including determining that a visitor is approaching an entryway of the smart home environment; initiating a facial recognition operation while the visitor is approaching the entryway; initiating an observation window in response to the determination that a visitor is approaching the entryway; obtaining context information from one or more sensors of the smart home environment during the observation window; and at the end of the time window, initiating a response to the detected approach of the visitor based on the context information and/or an outcome of the facial recognition operation.

Systems and methods of detecting and responding to a visitor to a smart home environment

Cleaning robot

A method at a server system includes: receiving a video stream from a remote video camera, wherein the video stream comprises a plurality of video frames; selecting a plurality of non-contiguous frames from the video stream, the plurality of non-contiguous frames being associated with a predetermined time interval; encoding the plurality of non-contiguous frames as a compressed video segment associated with the time interval; receiving a request from an application running on a client device to review video from the remote video camera for the time interval; and in response to the request, transmitting the video segment to the client device for viewing in the application.

Timeline-video relationship processing for alert events

Display screen with graphical user interface for a timeline-video relationship presentation for alert events

A method of presenting appropriate actions for responding to a visitor to a smart home environment via an electronic greeting system of the smart home environment, including detecting a visitor of the smart home environment; obtaining context information from the smart home environment regarding the visitor; based on the context information, identifying a plurality of appropriate actions available to a user of a client device for interacting with the visitor via the electronic greeting system; and causing the identified actions to be presented to the user of the client device.

Systems and methods of presenting appropriate actions for responding to a visitor to a smart home environment

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Seungho Yang